RFR: JDK-8038500: (zipfs) Upgrade ZIP provider to be a supported provider

[Xueming Shen]

On 4/14/14 11:56 AM, Alan Bateman wrote:
> On 14/04/2014 18:52, Xueming Shen wrote:
>> Thanks Mandy and Alan for the review.
>>
>> webrev has been updated accordingly to
>>
>> (1) Removed the basic.sh. The tests are now using test.jdk to access 
>> the zipfs.jar directly
>> (2) Updated most of the class to package package, only 
>> ZipFileSystemProvider (the spi interface)
>>      and ZipInfo are public.
>>      The ZipInfo is a handy utility sometime I find it useful to 
>> simply do java com.sun.nio.zipfs.Info xyz.zip
>>      to display all cen and loc tables in details. I may take 
>> sometime to find a better home for it later.
>> (3) I have not migrated the test target zipfs.jar to an "independent" 
>> test source (created during test) yet,
>>      will definitely later in a separate thread when we move to modules.
>> (4) Yes, I mean to keep Demo there as an interactive regression test.
>>
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sherman/8038500/webrev/
>>
>> -Sherman
> Iris asked me off-list about the name space which makes me wonder if 
> we should use the opportunity to move this to jdk.<something>. As it's 
> a service provider then nothing should be accessing these classes 
> directly. The only thing that comes to mind is 
> ZipFileAttributeView/ZipFileAttributes where the API provides a 
> type-safe means to access attributes. In the webrev then these are 
> being changed to package-private so I think would break anyone that 
> might be using them anyway.
>

go with jdk.nio.zipfs? I'm fine with that if this is the new directory 
to go. though it appears we have 1000+ classes at com.sun...

-sherman